The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone Review

Spiders. Lots of Spiders. A whole river of spiders in fact. Spiders that eat people, burst out of people, and act in a way that spiders don’t tend to act.

In case you missed the point of that first paragraph, The Hatching is all about a race of spiders who come out of a massive hibernation period and go absolutely mental towards humans. Starting off in a small mine in China, they soon get themselves all over the world despite nuclear attempts to stop them, borders being closed and flights being grounded. it is, if you’re not a fan of spiders, horrifying.

This first book in the series does more to set up the characters and the general plot than deliver any huge battles with the spiders, and as such has a pretty sudden and unsatisfying ending. But looking at this as the first part of many as opposed to a single entity there are a lot of positives to take out of it, and the story is set up nicely for this initial spider attack to be the tip of the iceberg.

it just so happens to be an iceberg that makes you feel very, very itchy a lot of the time.

Effective, exciting at times and a very decent opening gambit. I’ll look forward to seeing where this goes next, meanwhile if you’re after something that will genuinely give you the creeps (I even had a dream about it) then this is a very good bet.